"The man who is ostentatious of his modesty……" — Mark Twain
"The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf."
More Fig Quotes
- I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society. — Brigitte Bardot
- A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales… — Jonathan Swift
- Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its… — S. Parkes Cadman
- Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament… — Thom Hartmann
- The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets… — Lucian
- Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. — Florence King
- May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good… — George Washington
- Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. — Epictetus
- Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade… — Charles Dickens
- I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of… — George Washington
- I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve! — Brian Regan
- The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage. — Mark Lowry